VIETNAMESE STORKS DESTROYED IN BIRD FLU SCARE
August 5, 2006 (ABC Radio Australia)
Animal health workers in Vietnam have killed 53 wild storks at a theme park in Ho Chi Minh City after random tests showed two of the birds carried a strain of the avian influenza virus.
An official at the park says the findings of the H5 component, part of the H5N1 poultry virus, led to the slaughter of the birds even though they all appeared healthy.
Wild birds are natural hosts of bird flu viruses and often don't show symptoms but can pass the viruses to poultry.
H5N1 has killed 42 people in Vietnam since late 2003, but there have been no human infections detected in the Southeast Asian country this year.
Source: www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s1707170.htm?Vietnam
August 5, 2006 (ABC Radio Australia)
Animal health workers in Vietnam have killed 53 wild storks at a theme park in Ho Chi Minh City after random tests showed two of the birds carried a strain of the avian influenza virus.
An official at the park says the findings of the H5 component, part of the H5N1 poultry virus, led to the slaughter of the birds even though they all appeared healthy.
Wild birds are natural hosts of bird flu viruses and often don't show symptoms but can pass the viruses to poultry.
H5N1 has killed 42 people in Vietnam since late 2003, but there have been no human infections detected in the Southeast Asian country this year.
Source: www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s1707170.htm?Vietnam
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